Thorstein Veblen
Reinert, Erik S. / Viano, Francesca L.
After his death Thorstein Veblen was hailed as 'America's Darwin and Marx' and is normally portrayed as the perennial iconoclast. He severely criticised traditional economics and attempted to create an alternative approach based on a much more complex view of human beings. He is one of the most celebrated economists of our age and has been the inspiration for many books, the predatory version of capitalism we now again experience, the phenomen...
